CAMBRIDGE FILMS AND LITERARY REFRENCES
Here’s a short list of films below and some links to other interesting literary reference links for you.
A Cambridge Tale:
Cambridge, the 1930's. Two young gents decide to break up the tedium of looking rather dapper by
having a bicycle race through the beautiful English town of Cambridge. A chance encounter with a
mysterious girl becomes a comic chase for her attention. Soon though, Bertie and Freddie realise she is
not all she seems and they are in grave danger.
Cambridge Spies:
In 1934, four brilliant Cambridge men are recruited to spy for Russia. Fueled by youthful idealism, a
passion for social justice and a talent for lying, they take huge personal risks to pass Britain's biggest
secrets to Moscow. Based on true events.
Chariots of Fire:
The story of two British track athletes, one a determined Jew, and the other a devout Christian who
compete in the 1924 Olympics.
Life Story:
Watson and Crick race to find the structure of DNA before Linus Pauling, Maurice Wilkins, or Rosalind...
Maurice:
Two male English school chums find themselves falling in love at Cambridge. To regain his place in
society, Clive gives up his forbidden love, Maurice (pronounced "Morris") and marries. While staying
with Clive and his shallow wife, Anne, Maurice finally discovers romance in the arms of Alec, the
gamekeeper. Written from personal pain, it's E.M. Forster's story of coming to terms with sexuality in
the Edwardian age.
Paa:
A politician's relationship with his unusually developed son - the child suffers from a disease that causes
him to age rapidly, rendering him an old man.
Sylvia:
Story of the relationship between the poets Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath.
The Golden Age:
A mature Queen Elizabeth endures multiple crises late in her reign including court intrigues, an
assassination plot, the Spanish Armada, and romantic disappointments.
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Wittgenstein:
A dramatization, in modern theatrical style, of the life and thought of the Viennese-born, Cambridgeeducated philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951), whose principal interest was the nature and
limits of language. A series of sketches depict the unfolding of his life from boyhood, through the era of
the first World War, to his eventual Cambridge professorship and association with Bertrand Russell and
John Maynard Keynes. The emphasis in these sketches is on the exposition of the ideas of Wittgenstein,
a homosexual, and an intuitive, moody, proud, and perfectionistic thinker generally regarded as a
genius.
Dimensions:
Stephen is a brilliant young boy who lives in England, in what appears to be the 1920s - but nothing in
Stephen’s life is quite as it seems. His world is turned upside down upon meeting a charismatic and
inspirational professor at a garden party, who demonstrates to Stephen and his friends what life would
be like if they themselves were merely one, or two, dimensional beings. He then proceeds to explain
that by manipulating other dimensions, time travel may actually be possible.
As Stephen’s life unfolds, events lead him to dedicate himself to turning the Professor’s theories of time
travel into reality. Jealousy, love, obsession, temptation and greed surround him, influencing his fragile
mind and the direction of his work.
Wikipedia :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Cambridge#Literature_and_popular_culture
Web Movie Database:
http://www.imdb.com/search/title?locations=Cambridge%20University,%20Cambridge,%20Cambridges
hire,%20England,%20UK
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